Bauman 2005-eng Blok To the Contestants and Guests of the

Party in “Kolomenskoe” museum-reserve (for young scientists)

Вечеринка в музее-заповеднике «Коломенское» (для молодых ученых)

Dinner, disco in a restaurant (for the young scientists)

Ужин, диско в ресторане (для молодых ученых)

Reception of the Rector of the Bauman University 

(upon invitation: for National Organisers, European Commission, Jury)

Прием Ректора Бауманского университета 

(по приглашению: для Национальных организаторов, Европейской Комиссии, жюри)

8.00 – 9.30

10.00 – 11.15

11.40 – 12.40

13.00 - 15.30

13.00 – 16.30

16.30 – 16.45

16.45 – 17.45

19.00 – 21.30

22.00 – 23.00

9.00 – 12.00

12.15 – 13.15

13.45 – 16.00

16.00 – 16.15

17.30 – 19.30

20.30 – 23.00

19.00 – 23.00

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16 September – Friday

16 сентября – пятница

17 September – Saturday

17 сентября – суббота

8.00 – 24.00

13.00 – 15.00

15.00 – 18.30

17.00 – 18.45

19.45 – 23.00

19.30 – 21.00

9.00 – 19.00

11.00 – 15.00

13.00 – 14.00

16.00 – 17.00

17.00 – 19.30

19.30 – 23.00

19.30 – 23.00

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The EU Contest for Y

oung Scientists in Russia

The European Union (EU) Contest for Young Scientists is an

initiative supported by the European Commission to

promote co-operation and interchange between young

people with a special interest in science.

The EU Contest gives science students the opportunity to

compete at European level with other prize winners from

national competitions from across Europe and beyond. But it

is more than just a competition. The young people meet

others with similar abilities and interests, as well as some of

the most prominent scientists in Europe. In this way, the

Commission seeks to strengthen the efforts made in each

participating country to attract young people to careers in

science and technology. 

Only projects that have won a first prize at a national competition

can participate in the EU Contest. Thus, the Contest represents a

real scientific challenge for many thousands of young scientists

who compete annually in their national contests.

The first EU Contest took place in Brussels in 1989.  Since then,

the event has been hosted in Copenhagen, Zurich, Seville, Berlin,

Luxembourg, Newcastle upon Tyne, Helsinki, Milan, Porto,

Thessaloniki, Amsterdam, Bergen, Vienna, Budapest and Dublin.

This year, the EU Contest is taking place in Moscow, Russia, in the

Bauman Moscow State Technical University, the oldest technical

university in Moscow. 79 projects involving 126 contestants

from 35 countries will be competing.  Next year, the Contest will

take place in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Contest is one of the activities managed by the Directorate-

General for Research of the European Commission and is the

responsibility of the Science and Society Directorate. It is part of

a broad strategy to build a more harmonious relationship

between scientific endeavour and the European society at large.

F or more information on the EU Contest please visit our web site: 

http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/youngscientists

The Contestants

All participants in the EU Contest for Young Scientists have

been selected after having succeeded in their own country

at a national young scientist competition. They compete

either as individuals or as part of a team. There are strict

rules on the age of the contestants 14 to 21 years; the size

of the teams (maximum 3 contestants per project); and the

number of projects that each participating country can

send. A copy of the contest rules is available on request

from the Contest Secretariat. 

The size of the project demonstration stand is also clearly

defined in the application brochure and it is the

contestants’ responsibility to respect strict limitations on

the space available to them.  

The EU Contest accepts project entries in all fields of

scientific endeavour.

The Prizes

The projects compete on the basis of their work and

interviews with the Contest Jury for a number of prizes,

which are divided into two types:

•

Core Prizes, 

which are the principal prizes

awarded, and which are monetary prizes and 

•

Special Donated Prizes; 

typically, these prizes

are study visits or equivalent to leading science

organisations or events.

They are offered to contestants that, in the judgment of the

Jury, would benefit from the specific experiences that these

prizes offer. At the discretion of the Jury, a prize winner can

receive both a Core Prize and a Special Donated Prize. 

In addition to this, and in cases where a Special

Donated Prize is not awarded, the Jury offers up to six

first prize winning contestants the opportunity to

represent the Contest at either the London

International Youth Science Forum or the Stockholm

International Youth Science Seminar. 

The Core Prizes are: 

•

Three first prizes worth EUR 5000.

•

Three second prizes worth EUR 3000.

•

Three third prizes worth EUR 1500.

•

Participation in the London International Youth

Science Forum 

•

Participation in the Stockholm International Youth

Science Seminar

The Special Donated Prizes are:

•

A one week stay in one of the seven EIROforum

organisations: EMBL-ESRF-ESA-ESO-ILL-CERN-EFDA 

•

A 5-day programme offered by the European Patent

Office in Munich.

The Jury

The Jury is composed of a President and 14 other

jury members. They carry out their duties as

individuals and not as representatives of an

institution or country. The members of the Jury are

selected on the basis of scientific criteria to represent

their discipline. They are drawn from both academia

and industry.

The Commission appoints the Jury annually. A number

of members of the Jury are replaced each year in

accordance with normal Commission procedures.

Contest Exhibition: Jury interviews

Выставка Соревнования: жюри интервьюирует участников

Meeting of National Organisers and European Commission Delegation in the Conference Hall 

of the Bauman University

Собрание Национальных организаторов и Европейской Комиссии в конференц-зале Бауманского университета

Lunch for National Organisers and the European Commission in a restaurant

Обед национальных организаторов и Европейской комиссии в ресторане

Lunch for young scientists (in the Bauman University)

Обед для молодых ученых (в Бауманского университета)

Trip to the Mission Control Centre in the city of Korolev, or visit to scientific laboratories of the

Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (optional) – only for young scientists

Поездка в Центр управления полетами, город Королев, или посещение научных лабораторий институтов

Российской академии наук (по выбору участников) – все только для молодых ученых

Boat trip along the Moscow river, dinner in a restaurant, disco

Прогулка по Москва-реке с ужином, диско

Мisit to the Armory Museum of the Kremlin (for those who has not visited on September 16) or to the

Diamond Fund of Russia (for other) – only for young scientists

Посещение Оружейной палаты Кремля (для тех, кто не посетил 16 сентября) или Алмазного фонда России (для

остальных) – все только для молодых ученых

AWARD CEREMONY In the Hall of Church Cathedrals in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour Complex

ЦЕРЕМОНИЯ НАГРАЖДЕНИЯ в Зале Церковных Соборов Комплекса Храма Христа Спасителя

Lunch for young scientists (except Winners) in the Refectory of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Обед для молодых ученых в трапезной Храма Христа Спасителя (кроме победителей)

Photo for the Winners

Фотографирование победителей

Press-conference for the Winners in the Conference Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Пресс-конференция с участием победителей в конференц-зале Храма Христа Спасителя

Lunch for National Organisers, Escorts, European Commission, Jury, Winners in the Refectory 

of the Cathedral of the Christ the Saviour

Обед для Национальных организаторов, эскорта, Европейской Комиссии, жюри, 

победителей в трапезной Храма Христа Спасителя

Dismantling of stands

Демонтаж стендов

Farewell party in the restaurant “Golden” near the red Square, disco

Прощальный ужин в ресторане «Золотой» около Красной площади, диско

Departure

Отъезд

The EU Contest 

for Young Scientists in Moscow

20 September – Tuesday

20 сентября – вторник

21 September – Wednesday

21 сентября – среда

22 September – Thursday 

22 сентября – четверг

9.00 – 13.00

10.30 – 12.00

12.30 – 14.00

13.00 – 14.00

14.30 – 18.30

19.00 – 23.00

9.00 – 11.00

11.30 – 13.00

13.00 – 14.00

13.00 – 13.30

13.30 – 14.30

13.00 – 16.00

15.00 – 17.30

19.00 – 24.00

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The Selection and

Evaluation Process

The EU Contest takes place in four stages following

national competitions, which are held across Europe

from October 2004 to May 2005:

1.

Selection: Winners of the national competitions

are selected to represent their country at the EU Contest. 

2.

Preview: During summer the EU Contest Jury

have reviewed the written descriptions of the projects

that they will assess during the exhibition. 

3.

Contest: Contestants display their projects on

stands in the exhibition hall and are interviewed by

members of the Jury. The Jury uses the following criteria

in arriving at their judgement:

•

originality and creativity in the identification 

of and the approach to the basic problem;

•

skill, care and thoroughness in designing and 

carrying out the study;

•

follow-through of the study from conception 

to conclusion;

•

reasoning and clarity in the interpretation of the results;

•

quality of the written  report;

•

presentation and ability to discuss the project 

with the members of the Jury.

In applying all these criteria, allowance shall be made for the

age and educational level of the contestants, the quality of

the resources available to the contestants and their linguistic

ability if required to speak a non-maternal language.

The Award Ceremony

The Award Ceremony is a culmination of the EU

Contest for Young Scientists. Traditionally the

Ceremony is hosted by main officials and leading

scientists. In the past the Ceremonies have been

favoured by the presence of President of Finland,

President of Hungary, the Crown Grand Duke of

Luxemburg, Ministers, Ambassadors and other official

representatives of European countries.

The Award Ceremony of the 17th EU Contest this year

will be hosted by Andrei Alexandrovich Fursenko, the

Minister of Education and Science of the Russian

Federation. The Ceremony will take place in the Hall of

Church Councils of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral

Complex on September, 21.

The Crist the Saviour Cathedral was erected to signify

the gratitude for God’s protection in a dramatic

period of Russia’s history as a monument to Russian

people’s courage in the struggle against Napoleon’s

invasion of 1812.

On October 12, 1817 the cornerstone of the Temple was

triumphantly blessed. The first site was on the

Vorobyovy (Sparrow) Hills. Outstanding Russian

architects took part in creating the Temple. The building

work was conducted at the behest of Emperors

Alexandre I, Nicolas I, Alexandre II, Alexandre III and

blessed by Filaret, Moscow and Kolomna Metropolitan,

a Constant Member of the Sacred Synod, and Leonid,

Dmitrov Archibishop; it was supervised by D. V. Golitsyn,

the Duke and Moscow Governor General, and the

special Commission he headed, the Commisson having

been formed for that very purpose. The Temple took

almost 44 years to build.

Sculptural adornment and paintings of the Temple of

the Christ the Saviour is a unique harmony of God’s

mercy granted to the Russian kingdom for nine

centuries thanks to righteous people’s prays, the

harmony representing the ways and means God chose

to save people from the Creation and the Fall until the

atonement of humans by the Saviour.

The Temple of the Christ the Saviour was created by the

whole Russia and became a true embodiment of its

Glory, Hope and Greatness, and the witness of many

historic events. On December, the 13th, 1880 the

Temple was given the name of the Cathedral in the name

of the Christ the Saviour, and approved of its clergy. The

Cathedral witnessed the Coronation Ceremonies,

People’s Holidays and Jubilees: 500th anniversary of the

death of Sergei, the Saint, 100th anniversary of Patriotic

War of 1812, 300th anniversary of the Romanovs

dynasty, opening of monuments to Alexandre III and

N. V. Gogol, an eminent Russian writer. There used to be

several Saint patron’s days in the Cathedral, the main

being the Christmas Day that was also celebrated by the

whole Orthodox Moscow until 1917 as the Victory Day

in the Patriotic War of 1812.

December, 5, 1931 is the date when the main Cathedral

of Russia, a monument to its military glory was

demolished barbarically. After the first explosion the

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Cathedral was still standing its ground, they had to plant

a new portion of explosives. It all ended in a few hours.

The National Russian Relic was turned into ruins.

The history of the Cathedral’s death, exploded in 1931,

had begun fifteen years before its physical demolishing

with the fact that was not directly connected with its

destruction. First the monument to the Emperor

Alexandre III in the park near the Cathedral was pulled

down. The Decree on monuments of the Republic that

was adopted by the Council of People’s Commissioners

dated on the 12th of April, 1918 declared: “Monuments

erected to commemorate Tsars or their servicemen and

monuments that are of no historical or art value are

eligible to be taken away from squares and streets and

partially should be placed in storehouses or utilized…”

Cultural, political, ideological and state policy of the new

Rule did not leave any chance to the old Russia.

Tragic statistics of the first revolutionary years states

killings of clergymen, confiscation of church property,

breaking up the relics, closing up religious processions,

desecration  of churches and monasteries or convents,

their closing up. Demolishing of the first churches was

explained by the necessity of making the streets more

straight and wide to solve transport problems.

For many years after the explosion a horrible pit gaped

instead of the magnificent and mighty Cathedral until

1958 when in the Kruschev godless era the pit was

turned into a swimming pool called “Moskva”, as a

monument to the desecration and consigning to

oblivion of the National glory and history that could

not be inscribed within the master tasks of

“Communism builders”. The Cathedral marble was

utilized as a decoration for the Kropotkinskaya and

Ochotnyi Ryad underground stations, its benches

decorated Novokuznetskaya underground station. A

part of marble plates with the names of heroes of

Patriotic War of 1812 was crumbled and powdered

onto the paths in Moscow parks, some of the plates

decorated Moscow buildings.

Late eighties of the twentieth century gave birth to the

social movement of Moscovites and all Russians to

rebuild the Christ the Saviour Cathedral, the movement

organisers being V.A. Soloukhin, V.P. Mokrousov, V.N.

Krupin, G.V. Sviridov, V.G. Rasputin. In Ferbuary 1990

the Saint Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

blessed the revival of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral

and applied to the Russian Federation Government to

give the permission to its rebuilding at the old place.

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oung Scientists in Russia

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The EU Contest for Y

oung Scientists in Russia

On December 5, 1990, in Volkhonka Street near the

place the Cathedral used to tower the granite

cornerstone was solemnly laid. There was an inscription

on it saying: 

“The cornerstone in the name of God’s Mother icon

“Derzhavnaya”, the precursor of the Christ the Saviour

Cathedral, that will be revived at this sacred place.”  On

May 31, 1994 the Moscow Government together with

Moscow Patriarchate decreed to begin the construction

work of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral. The

swimming pool “Moskva” started dismantling on

September 30, 1994.  The closing months of that year

witnessed pouring of the concrete basement of the

stylobate part of the Cathedral.

The history of the Cathedral of the Christ the Saviour has

been going through several centuries, binding fates of a

number of mundane rulers, hierachs of the Russian

Orthodox Church and ordinary people donating for

building the sanctuary. And now, at hard and dim times

it has raised from non-existence thanks to prays and

work of all orthodox Christians – the Great Cathedral,

the main Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church,

the Cathedral-monument, the Cathedral-martyr, the

Cathedral of the Christ the Saviour. 

With the Divine Liturgy served under the vaults of the

rebirthed Cathedral of the Christ the Saviour on the

Christmas night (January, 7 – is Christmas Day for the

Russian Orthodox Church) Orthodox Russia met the

grandiose Jubilee – the 2nd Millenium of Christ’s birth,

the Advent of God and Saviour – Jesus Christ. The

revived Cathedral symbolizes  belief, repentance,

eternal memory, love and hope.

The Participating Countries

The following countries participate in the Contest on a

competitive basis:

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany,

Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,

Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia,

Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey,

Ukraine, United Kingdom. 

In addition, special guest status has been conferred to

prize winning teams  from the following countries:

•

United States of America;

•

China;

•

Japan.

This year the European schools are represented 

by a team coming from the Netherlands.

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The Selection 

and Evaluation Process

The UE Contest Past Winners 

Contact person

For more information 

on the EU Contest 

for Young Scientists 

please contact 

the Contest Secretariat:

Justina Martinez-Alarcon

European Commission

Research Directorate General

Directorate C – Unit C/6

European Union Contest 

for Young Scientists

Sguare de Meeus, 8

B-1049 Brussels

Fax + 32 2 296 70 24

E-mail: [e-mail]

The names of the first prizewinners since the European Commission took over the running of the European Contest in 1989 are listed below by year, project and country. Up

to 1994 six first project prizes were awarded but thereafter only three first project prizes were given to reflect the introduction of Special- and Donated prizes. 

BRUSSELS 1989

Mogens Markussen

DK

Eyewriter, an eye operated control unit

Stephan Schlitter

DE

Conducting polymers in batteries

Grace O’Connor 

Sinead Finn

IE

A crop fractionation industry

Lina Tomasella

IT

Toxicity of colour dyes used as tracers

Nicola Kirk

GB

Walking aid for a disabled person

Jean-Pierre Wyss 

Matthias Zimmermann 

Elmar Artho

CH

Recognition of handwritten signs

COPENHAGUEN 1990

Paul Vauterin

Bruno Callens

BE

Automated meteor observation station

The effect of assimilatory starch 

Waltraud Schulze

DE

for the growth of Arabidopsis

Annagh Dalton

Colpomenia Peregrina, an inmigrant 

(nee Minchin)

IE

alga to Europe 

Donatella Manganelli

IT

Silence, micro-organisms at work

Brian Dolan

Lee Kiera

A study of the transition to turbulence

Ann Marie Malon

GB

in Reynold's experiment

CH

Drinking water examination with special 

Marco Ziegler

consideration of corrosional aspects

ZURICH 1991

Development and construction 

Robert Nitzschmann

DE

of a scanning tunnelling microscope

Barry O'Doherty

The dynamics of a two-well

Daniel Dundas

IE

potential oscillator

Computer assisted text

Paul Hoffmann

LU

conversion to Braille

Angus Filshie

GB

Clearway: a mucus extractor

Christian Tost 

Sabine Zangl

AT

Catalytic converter restoration

Torkild Jensen

NO

Birdlife in Oslofjord

Earthquakes as a self-organised 

Hans Jacob Feder

NO

critical process